From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Groove \Groove\, noun [D. groef, groeve; akin to E. grove. See {Grove}.]
1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.
2. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.
The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove. --J. Morley.
3. [See {Grove}.] (Mining) A shaft or excavation. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Groove \Groove\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Grooved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Groving}.] To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) [syn: {channel}]
2: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" [syn: {rut}]
3: (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part [syn: {vallecula}]
verb
1: make a groove in, or provide with a groove; "groove a vinyl record"
2: hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" [syn: {furrow}, {rut}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
249 Moby Thesaurus words for "groove": abysm, abyss, alameda, arroyo, ascender, autolithograph, back, bastard type, be a printmaker, beard, beat, beaten path, beaten track, belly, berm, bevel, bezel, bicycle path, black letter, boardwalk, body, bore, box canyon, breach, break, bridle path, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, burrow, canal, canalize, canyon, cap, capital, carve, case, catwalk, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, character, chase, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chinoiserie, chisel, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, corrugate, corrugation, coulee, couloir, counter, crack, cranny, crease, crevasse, crevice, cribble, crimp, crosshatch, cut, cut apart, cwm, dado, daily grind, defile, dell, delve, descender, dig, dig out, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dredge, drill, drive, em, en, enchase, engrave, engraving, esplanade, excavate, excavation, face, fastwalk, fat-faced type, fault, feet, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fluting, font, foot pavement, footpath, footway, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, garden path, gash, glyph, goffer, gorge, gouge, gouge out, grave, grind, grub, gulch, gulf, gully, hatch, hiking trail, hole, incise, incision, inscribe, italic, jog trot, joint, kloof, leak, letter, ligature, line, lithograph, logotype, lower, lower case, majuscule, make prints, mall, mark, microgroove, mine, minuscule, moat, nick, notch, nullah, open, opening, pace, parade, pass, passage, path, pathway, pi, pica, pleat, plow, point, prado, print, promenade, public walk, quarry, rabbet, ravine, red tape, red-tapeism, rent, rifle, rifling, rift, rime, rive, roman, rote, round, routine, ruck, run, runway, rupture, rut, sans serif, sap, scissure, scoop, scoop out, score, scrabble, scrape, scratch, script, sculpture, seam, shank, shoulder, shovel, sidewalk, sink, slit, slot, small cap, small capital, spade, split, squirrel cage, stamp, stem, stipple, streak, stria, striate, striation, sulcation, sulcus, tool, towing path, towpath, track, trail, treadmill, trench, trottoir, trough, tunnel, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, valley, void, wadi, walk, walkway, well-worn groove, wrinkle
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